455 TUFTED DllCK. Ciafs IL 



IX. The TUFTED DUCK. 



Un petit Plongeon efpece de 41 t. tab. 2j. Jig. f. 



Canard . Be Ion a<v. 175. Kram. 3 4. 1 . 



Straufs cndt. Gefner a<v. 107. Anas fuligula. Lin. fyjl. 207. 



Querquedula Criftata. Aldr. a<v. Wigge. Faun. Suec.fp. 132. 



iii. 91. Norvegis Trold-And. Brunnicb. 

 Wil. orn. 365. 90. 



Raiifyn.a'v. 14.2. Br. Zaol. 1 5 3. 

 Le petit Morillon. BriJJbn a<v. vi. 



©efcr. ^T^ HI S fcarcely weighs two pounds : the length is 

 •*■ fifteen inches and a half: the bill is of a bluifh 

 grey, the hook black. The head is adorned with a 

 thick, but fhort pendent crefl. The belly, and under 

 coverts of the wings are of a pure white: the middle 

 quil feathers are white, tipped with black ; the reft of the 

 plumage is black, varied about the head with purple: 

 the tail is very fhort, and confifts of fourteen feathers : 

 the legs of a bluifh grey ; the webs black. The fe- 

 male wants the creft. When young this fex is of a 

 deep brown ; and the fides of the head next the bill 

 of a pale yellow, but it preferves the other marks of 

 the old duck •, in this ftate it has been defcribed in the 

 Ornitb. boreal. 91, under the title of anas lalirofira. 





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